The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfuz is undoubtably a masterpiece of modern literature. Comparable to the great Russian novels for the complexity of his round-characters, The Cairo Trilogy makes Mahfuz the best Egyptian novelist, able to unveil the secrets and contradiction of the Egyptian society.
Divided into three books – Palace Walk, [...]
Do They Hear You When You Cry is the true story of Fauziya Kassindja who was finally granted asylum in the United States on June 13, 1996.
She left Togo – her beloved homeland – after her father died. Fauzyia’s father was a progressive man who had always shielded her against tribal practices who wanted young [...]
Jean Sasson, the author of Mayada Daughter of Iraq, met the protagonist of the book, Mayada, in Iraq in 1998. Jean went to Iraq to witness how Iraqi people were living under the sanctions, and indeed was hoping to find the subject for a new book. As soon as Jean arrived in Baghdad, she went [...]
Shirin-Gol grew up at the rhythm of the war. The Russians invaded her country Afghanistan when she was young, and she saw them bombing her home village and killing her brothers who joined the resistance. Like many others, Shirin-Gol fled to Kabul with what was remaining of her family. Russians were ruling the country and [...]
This is not a fairy tail, or a fictional love story. It is the true story of a young woman, Joanna, and her escape from Saddam Hussein’s gas attacks on the Kurdish of Iraq.
“One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out [...]
From the back of the book: Aged sixteen, Marina Nemat was arrested for reasons she didn’t understand nad taken to Evin, Tehran’s notorious prison. Her world was about to change forever.
Marina was interrogated, tortured and finally sentenced to death. At the last moment, her prison guard snatched her from the firing-swuad bullets but demanded a shocking [...]
From the back of the book: Mariam was only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendsihp grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila; as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and [...]
From the back of the book: Daoud Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman, grew up in the Darfur region of Sudan. In 2003, his traditional village life was shattered when helicopter gunships appeared overhead, followed by Sudanese-government-backed militia groups that swept in on horseback, raping and murdering citizens and burning houses. Hari’s home was destroyed, his family decimated [...]
“This is the story of a real woman. I met her in Qanatir Prison a few years ago,” writes doctor El Saadawi. This is the story of Firdaus, a woman condemned to death sentence and imprisoned in Cairo.
In the forward of the book written by Miriam Cooke, we read: “the novel (…) takes the reader [...]
“Ora che il futuro si era fatto corto e mi sfuggiva di mano con l’inesorabilità della sabbia che cola dentro una clessidra, mi capitava spesso di pensare al passato della mia esistenza: cercare lí le risposte con le quali sarebbe giusto morire. Perché fossi nata, perché fossi vissuta, e chi o che cosa avesse plasmato [...]
by Goretti Kyomuhendo
Waiting for the sun to rise, for a child to be born, for the soldiers to come, for the wounds to stop bleeding, for husbands to return home, for the war to end.
Set in the town of Hoima in western Uganda, Waiting provides an insight in the life of a family during the [...]
Giacinto Franzoi, di origini trentine, è una padre della Consolata esportato in Amazzonia da giovane. È a capo dei coltivatori di cacao di Remolino del Caguàn, iniziativa che è stata premiata nel 2004 con “il Premio nazionale della pace”. La terra che l’ha adottato, l’ha unito alle comunità locali sopraffatte dalla povertà e dalla miseria. [...]
Le splendide coste a sud della penisola italiana sono costantemente spettatrici di drammatici sbarchi di immigrati clandestini. Le fatiscenti barche destinate a loro, trasportano un carico di disperazioni e speranze che si materializzano in migliaia di storie che raramente conosceranno un lieto fine. Libera è una donna eritrea figlia di un paese in guerra. Coltiva [...]
Iran Awakening is an honest autobiography of a courageous woman whose personal tales reveal the history of a country and the stories of its people over the last 50 years. She writes about Iran from Iran, working within the system and even against the system, never thinking of abandoning the country that often betrayed her, [...]
